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Sonia, Leanne Yau, Craig Franklin, Jason in Panama, and myself will be returning from Part 1, delving into the wondrous world of plants, animals, and the sea!

Sonia has already sent out a PM, but since it doesn't hurt to repeat the important details:

• There are 136 solo poems, so one reader gets to do 28 poems and the others will have to do 27.

• There are 21 DRs with 51 roles, so one reader will do 11 roles and the others 10.

Claiming is as before. Those who want particular poems will make a wishlist of 28/27 poems. Those who don't care will be at Sonia's mercy. For DRs, Google Docs will appear when the MW is set up, and there'll be a sign-up document as always for claims.

Tomas Peter

Currently signed up for:The Goddess: A Demon | Amends for Ladies | Adelgitha | Dave Brings Home a Wife | Psyche | Trelawny of the Wells | An Ideal Husband

Excited to be here! I haven't looked through all the poems yet, but I saw Under the Greenwood Tree by Shakespeare was one of them. I happen to know how to sing this as a song (I did so once for a singing contest), so I was hoping I could claim this one preemptively xD

I have just roamed through all the poems available and made my lists I found 26 poems that I really would love to read, so if I can get all these (if Leanne and Tomas do not fight me over them), I need only one or two more to meet my share of 27/28.

I will wait for the others to finish their lists though, so as not to influence anybody

I will take Sonia's assignments for the poems, including the remaining Shakespeare if it is still available. For DRs I will go through and make claims and if I don't claim enough, then I will have them assigned also.

Regards,
Jason (back) in Canada

20 Years in Canada, 20 years in Panama, now returned to Canada for the next stage of my life

jasonb wrote:I will take Sonia's assignments for the poems, including the remaining Shakespeare if it is still available. For DRs I will go through and make claims and if I don't claim enough, then I will have them assigned also.

I see I can have a lot of fun assigning poems again

Yes I marked you down for the second Shakespeare already. Then Leanne can have her Shakespeare song. Always great to have a few songs in there

LIST A
The Greenwood Tree: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare
The Wind and the Pine-Tree: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor
Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Daffodils by William Wordsworth
The Wreath by Meleager
To the Cuckoo by William Wordsworth
The Skylark by James Hogg
To the Nightingale by John Milton
Unmusical Birds: From 'The Task,' Book I by William Cowper
The Mocking-Bird by Frank Lebby Stanton
The Eagle (A Fragment) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Dying Swan by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The English Robin by Harrison Weir
Asian Birds by Robert Seymour Bridges
The Winged Worshippers by Charles Sprague
To the Grasshopper and Cricket by Leigh Hunt
The Lion's Ride by Ferdinand Freiligrath
The Sea by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Disappointed Lover: From 'The Triumph of Time' by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Coral Reef: From 'The Pelican Island' by James Montgomery
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea by Allan Cunningham
The White Squall by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
A Life on the Ocean Wave by Epes Sargent
Twilight at Sea by Amelia B. Welby
The Wreck: From 'Don Juan,' Canto II by Lord Byron
The Shore: From 'Ariadne' by Charles G.D. Roberts
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
With a Nantucket Shell by Charles Henry Webb
The Sea-Limits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

LIST B
The Primeval Forest: From the Introduction of 'Evangeline' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Holly-Tree by Robert Southey
The Grape-Vine Swing by William Gilmore Simms
To the Dandelion by James Russell Lowell
The Rhodora: Lines on Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower? by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant
The Question by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Mariposa Lily by Ina Donna Coolbrith
The Water-Lily by John Banister Tabb
Flowers by Thomas Hood
The Sea-Poppy by Robert Seymour Bridges
Birds: From 'The Pelican Island' by James Montgomery
To the Skylark by William Wordsworth
The Little Beach Bird by Richard Henry Dana
The Departure of the Swallow by William Howitt
The Flight of the Geese by Charles G.D. Roberts
The Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats
A Soliloquy: Occasioned by the Chirping of a Grasshopper by Walter Harte
The Sea by Bernard Barton
The Gravedigger by Bliss Carman
Flotsam and Jetsam by Anonymous
Gulf-Weed by Cornelius George Fenner
Ye Mariners of England by Thomas Campbell

LIST C
The Brave Old Oak by Henry Fothergill Chorley
Among the Redwoods by Edward Rowland Sill
The Life of Flowers by Walter Savage Landor
To Daffodils by Robert Herrick
Trailing Arbutus by Rose Terry Cooke
Early June: From 'Thyrsis' by Matthew Arnold
Sunrise: A Hymn of the Marshes by Sidney Lanier
The Ivy Green by Charles Dickens
The Mountain Fern by Arthur Gerald Geoghegan
The Maize by William W. Fosdick
Sassafras by Samuel Minturn Peck
To Blossoms by Robert Herrick
Copa de Oro (California Poppy) by Ina Donna Coolbrith
'T Is the Last Rose of Summer: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore
To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant
To the Cuckoo by John Logan
The Lark Ascending by George Meredith
To the Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant
The Nightingale's Song: From 'Music's Duel' by Richard Crashaw
Philomena by Matthew Arnold
The Blackbird by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Scarlet Tanager by Joel Benton
Lines to the Stormy Petrel by Anonymous
The Fly: Occasioned by a Fly Drinking Out of the Author's Cup by William Oldys
To the Humblebee by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wild Honey by Maurice Thompson
The Housekeeper by Charles Lamb
The Tiger by William Blake
To a Dog's Memory by Louise Imogen Guiney
The Arab to his Favorite Steed by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
The Sea: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron
Ocean: From 'The Course of Time,' Book I by Robert Pollok
Sea-Weed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Coral Insect by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
My Brigantine: From 'The Water Witch' by James Fenimore Cooper
Tom Bowling by Charles Dibdin
Our Boat to the Waves by William Ellery Channing
To Sea! by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The Shipwreck by William Falconer
Hampton Beach by John Greenleaf Whittier
Among the Rocks by Robert Browning

I have 26 poems on it, and I plan on claiming 27. Already one is overlapping with Craig's only wish "Helvellyn". As it is the only poem he really wished for, I will give that one to him. No problem.

4 are overlapping with Leanne:

To the Cuckoo by William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
The English Robin by Harrison Weir (1824–1906)
“A wet sheet and a flowing sea” by Allan Cunningham (1784–1842)
The White Squall by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874)

Of those 4 my personal preference would go to the two "sea" poems. So if you don't mind leaving me those, you can have the "bird" poems. That would actually make your list of 27 complete, unless you wish to do 28.

So of those 26 I will give 1 to Craig and 2 to Leanne, that means I have a list of 23 poems, so I will choose 4 from my B-list, taking care not to take any of Leanne's A-List.

So unless Tomas is fighting us over some poems, we can have our wish-lists

Here is my A-List:

11 Among the Redwoods by Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887)
21 Trailing Arbutus by Rose Terry Cooke (1827–1892)
26 A September Violet by Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937)
28 The Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
29 Sunrise: A Hymn of the Marshes by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881)
31 The Mountain Fern by Arthur Gerald Geoghegan (1810–1889)
36 The Daisy by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400)
44 “’T is the last rose of summer” by Thomas Moore (1779–1852)
50 To the Cuckoo by John Logan (1748–1788)51 To the Cuckoo by William Wordsworth (1770–1850)Leanne's Choice
57 The Little Beach Bird by Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879)
61 The Nightingale’s Song by Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649)
71 The Owl by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874)75 The English Robin by Harrison Weir (1824–1906)Leanne's Choice
90 A More Ancient Mariner by Bliss Carman (1861–1929)
91 To a Louse by Robert Burns (1759–1796)
98 The Ox by Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907)102 Helvellyn by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)Craig's Choice
108 The Sea by Lord Byron (1788–1824)
112 The Sea by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874)
115 The Treasures of the Deep by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835)123 “A wet sheet and a flowing sea” by Allan Cunningham (1784–1842)Leanne's Choice
130 Tom Bowling by Charles Dibdin (1745–1814)132 The White Squall by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874)Leanne's Choice
140 The Shipwreck by William Falconer (1732–1769)
145 The Buoy-Bell by Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879)

And my B-List:

1 The Primeval Forest by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
3 The Wind and the Pine-Tree by Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886)
4 The Brave Old Oak by Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808–1872)
5 The Holly-Tree by Robert Southey (1774–1843)
9 The Grape-Vine Swing by William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870)
12 The Voice of the Grass by Sarah Roberts Boyle (1812–1869)
13 Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
14 The Use of Flowers by Mary Howitt (1799–1888)
16 The Life of Flowers by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
17 The Early Primrose by Henry Kirke White (1785–1806)
18 To Daffodils by Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
19 Daffodils by William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
20 To the Dandelion by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
22 The Woodspurge by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)
23 The Rhodora by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
24 Early June by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
25 To Violets by Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
27 The Wreath by Meleager of Gadara (1st Century B.C.)
30 The Ivy Green by Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
32 The Maize by William Whiteman Fosdick (1825–1862)
34 The Question by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
35 Sassafras by Samuel Minturn Peck (1854–1938)
38 To Blossoms by Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
39 The Mariposa Lily by Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841–1928)
40 The Water-Lily by John Banister Tabb (1845–1909)
41 Copa de Oro by Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841–1928)
43 Flowers by Thomas Hood (1799–1845)
45 To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
46 The Sea-Poppy by Robert Bridges (1844–1930)
47 Goldenrod by Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953)
49 Birds by James Montgomery (1771–1854)
54 To the Skylark by William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
55 To the Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
56 The Skylark by James Hogg (1770–1835)
58 The Sandpiper by Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894)
59 To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
60 To the Nightingale by John Milton (1608–1674)
63 Unmusical Birds by William Cowper (1731–1800)
68 The Mocking-Bird by Frank Lebby Stanton (1857–1927)
70 The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
76 Asian Birds by Robert Bridges (1844–1930)
77 The Scarlet Tanager by Joel Benton (1832–1911)
80 The Flight of the Geese by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943)
81 Lines to the Stormy Petrel—Anonymous
84 To the Grasshopper and Cricket by Leigh Hunt (1784–1859)
87 The Fly by William Oldys (1696–1761)
89 Wild Honey by Maurice Thompson (1844–1901)
93 The Housekeeper by Charles Lamb (1775–1834)
95 The Tiger by William Blake (1757–1827)
103 The Arab to his Favorite Steed by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan) Norton (1808–1877)
105 The Chariot of Cuchullin—Anonymous
107 The Sea by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
109 The Sea by Bernard Barton (1784–1849)
114 The Gravedigger by Bliss Carman (1861–1929)
116 Flotsam and Jetsam—Anonymous
120 The Coral Insect by Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865)
122 The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894)
127 The Minute-Gun by R. S. Sharpe (1759–1835)
133 “Our boat to the waves” by William Ellery Channing (1818–1901)
134 “A life on the ocean wave” by Epes Sargent (1813–1880)
136 Twilight at Sea by Amelia B. Welby (1819–1852)
139 The Wreck by Lord Byron (1788–1824)
143 The Shore by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943)
148 The Sea Shell by William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
150 Hampton Beach by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
151 Among the Rocks by Robert Browning (1812–1889)
157 The Sea-Limits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)